Earlier this month, we reposted a photo from twin6 showing a wonderfully insane front-wheel-drive contraption from Rose City, Michigan, but couldn’t relate any more information than what was in the photo itself. However, reader Steve Donohoe actually knew somebody from Rose City, Michigan – Dean Coleman, the chief of police there – and Dean checked […]
While researching the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser over the last couple of weeks, I came across mention of another car that would be worth posting this chilly chilly morning (-18 degrees Fahrenheit on my way into work this morning!). Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton – he of the ill-fated Endurance expedition – had in 1907 set sail […]
After reading Bob Lichty’s excellent story on the Poulter-designed Snow Cruiser built for Admiral Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition in this past weekend’s SIA Flashback, I went traipsing through the Internets to see if anybody had found the Snow Cruiser in the quarter century since the SIA article. Other than plenty of speculation regarding the fate […]